Ryan Donahue

Economic development consultant. Do work with @BrookingsMetro. Cyclist, urbanist, YIMBYist, conservationist. Runs on plants.

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

@basquith827 @arpitrage @BitsyPerlman Also there are various innovation voucher programs that have been done at small scale with National Labs, plus this proposal in Illinois to do something similar with universities: https://t.co/5Q1A831hiG

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

@basquith827 @arpitrage @BitsyPerlman Best example I've seen is in the UK: https://t.co/LjXIYtlPxC

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

All of this change is messy, iterative, and ongoing. But there is much to be optimistic about in these stories. We hope this report can guide the work of other regions that are trying to "rewire" their systems. Let me know what you think!

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

My latest from @BrookingsMetro was released last week. Really proud of this one, written with @joeparilla and Sarena Martinez. Why did we write this? https://t.co/GcMntzDxt6

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

It was a pleasure to tell (some of) the stories of organizations like @EconInclusion, @GreaterMSP, @CenterStateCEO, @nexuscp, @GrtAkronChamber, @Bounce_Hub, @ofe_stp, and others.

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

@berubea1 @RadPowerBikes Yes! Love it. Happy riding!

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

We're gonna switch to artificial beef

[Joe Parilla @joeparilla]

New report with @rmdonahue & @Sifan_Liu provides a roadmap for the Birmingham region to achieve better outcomes and a more equitable future with the help of a new multisector regional partnership: @ProsperBham. Read more here: https://t.co/Rkf3xbOoL6

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

Perhaps the most promising opening in a textbook ever.

[Mark Hawthorne Ⓥ @markhawthorne]

"Cattle ranching is responsible for as much as 80% of the ongoing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. A significant portion of the global beef supply ... originates on land that was once Amazon rainforest and is now denuded." https://t.co/KqBkm0cpSd #govegan

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“How much damage can one person do to the planet?” I wondered back in October about Jair Bolsonaro. Less than a year later, he’s proving the answer is a terrifying amount, so long as the rest of the world stands idly by. https://t.co/kFaXxLMnum

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

@joeparilla 100% - increasingly feels like the only way to help counter regional inequality! NIH has 26 research centers in Maryland; just one of those would be transformative elsewhere. Though maybe that's a bad example as cancer research might benefit hugely from agglomeration.

[Tim Bartik @TimBartik]

I just finished reading this paper, & I highly recommend it to anyone interested in local economic development strategies.

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

As @MarkMuro1 has shown (https://t.co/7n0Vt4iOX6), elite coastal metros are increasingly dominant in the tech economy. Places like Greenville SC, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Syracuse offer lessons for how the rest can compete on their own terms. (It's not easy!)

[Ryan Donahue @rmdonahue]

If there's one thing to be more skeptical about than cluster initiatives, it's reports about cluster initiatives. But @joeparilla and I tried hard to make one worth your time, with 5 case studies detailing how these things actually get done: https://t.co/GohMEGZPDM

[Tim Bartik @TimBartik]

My report on the benefits and costs of different economic development incentives for both overall local per capita-income, and for different income groups, has now been released. This links to 4 pp policy brief, 12 pp exec summary, 158 page full report: https://t.co/xp33drpeSX